Wednesday 30 March 2011

70th Anniversary of Virginia Woolf's Death*





"Imaginative work... is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.... But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in midair by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering, human beings, and are attached to the grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in."
[in A Room of One's Own]




"What is the meaning of life?... a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark."
[in To the Lighthouse]


*[It was two days ago (a few days after the passing of Liz Taylor who famously played "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" on screen), but it's still Women's Month...]





"Imaginative work... is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.... But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in midair by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering, human beings, and are attached to the grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in."
[in A Room of One's Own]




"What is the meaning of life?... a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years. The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark."
[in To the Lighthouse]


*[It was two days ago (a few days after the passing of Liz Taylor who famously played "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" on screen), but it's still Women's Month...]

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